Keep Clark County Beautiful

About KCCB

Our Mission is to engage Clark County residents to take pride, ownership, and responsibility for enhancing their community’s environment.

What we do: We all recognize that a cleaner community appears to be safer, healthier, more prosperous, and more welcoming. Not unlike many other communities, and in spite of all our best efforts, Clark County has wrestled for years with the challenges of litter, graffiti, and general mismanagement of trash.

With the intent of bringing these issues into focus and motivating the wider community to join in making improvements, a collaborative effort to initiate a local Keep America Beautiful (KAB) program has resulted in the organization of Keep Clark County Beautiful, or KCCB. This national affiliation helps to highlight the value of community beautification and putting waste in its proper place and offers proven models and tools that enhance our ability to make a difference here in Clark County. Coordinated by the Clark County Solid Waste District, we are one of more than one thousand communities participating in the KAB network.

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A little more about Keep America Beautiful

How does Keep America Beautiful work?

KAB was established in 1953 and is the nation’s largest volunteer based community action and education organization. KAB strives to change behaviors and improve communities by focusing on:

  • Litter Prevention: Defining litter, identifying the cause, preventing it, organizing clean-ups, and properly handling discarded wastes in our community.
  • Waste Reduction: Reducing the impact of mismanaged solid waste in our communities through integrated programs including source reduction, reuse, recycling, and education.
  • Beautification: Improving the visual aspects of our communities through programs that beautify our environment including community gardens, vacant lot restoration, highway beautification, urban forests, native and wildflower plantings, as well as graffiti prevention and abatement.

The KAB guiding principles

  • Education: the key to encouraging positive behaviors toward community improvement.
  • Individual Responsibility: Inspiring individuals to become more engaged as citizens and stewards of the environment.
  • Public-Private Partnerships: broad-based community alliances are essential to achieving sustainable community improvement.
  • Volunteer Action: Engaging volunteers extends the reach of educational efforts and multiplies the impact of our actions.

Who We Are

KCCB Board Members

  • David Estrop, Board Chair
  • Michael Cooper, Vice Chair
  • Heather Bacon
  • Pam Bennett
  • Macy Clark
  • Sheryl Cunningham
  • Penny Dunbar
  • Karen Duncan
  • Kathy Estep
  • Ethan Harris
  • Brady Hauf
  • Amanda Honeycutt
  • Jeremy Leist
  • Marianne Nave
  • Kristy Thome
  • Stephen Thompson
  • James Wills Jr.

KCCB seeking 2024 youth representatives

Keep Clark County Beautiful (KCCB) is seeking a youth representative to serve on its board of directors. Any Clark County high school student with at least a 3.0 GPA is eligible to apply for this position. The youth representative would be a voting member of the board, with all rights and responsibilities. The youth representative’s term would through June 30, 2024.

KCCB is the local affiliate of Keep America Beautiful, the nation’s largest volunteer-based community action and education organization. KAB focuses on litter prevention, waste reduction, and community beautification.

Applicants needing more information can send questions to Program Specialist Sam Perin via email (sperin@clarkcountyohio.gov) or call 937-521-2022. A copy of the application is available here.

KCCB is the local affiliate of Keep America Beautiful, the nation’s largest volunteer-based community action and education organization. KAB focuses on litter prevention, waste reduction, and community beautification.

Projects & Services

KCCB supports the Great American Cleanup, a national volunteer litter collection drive held from March through May. Contact the Waste Management District at 937-521-2020.

We also offer assistance to groups and individuals interested in the Adopt-a-Road and Adopt-a-Spot programs, providing clean-up supplies such as trash bags, gloves, litter grabbers, safety equipment, and more.